I have been playing Civ 4 for the last 3 months and was just going over my games and making notes about them and wanted to share it with you all!
This was the first Civ game I have ever played (first game played Feb 2013) but I was googling a new strategy game to play and this one kept coming up. I was initially going to play Civ 5 but after reading quite a few strongly felt posts that Civ 4 was better I decided to give it a go. Well I wasn't dissappointed and have literally put 100s of hours into the game and really enjoyed them.
I think one the things I liked so much about it was how incredibly challanging the AI was. Often I felt I was playing a particularly sneaky human player. I felt I had to pull out all the stops to stand a chance that I suppose meant I had to micromanage but oddly I like that if I there is reason to do it ie I would lose otherwise.
Anway here is a list of my games so you see how many hours I sunk into this and so if you have recently done the same you are not alone!
Civ4 vanilla played 5 proper games all with the same settings except difficulty exclusively from 30th Jan to 27th Mar 2013.
Continents / Climate (Temperate) / Sealevel (Medium) / World Size (standard)/ Game Speed (Normal)
1st Spanish noble difficulty (normal). Looks like I probably realised I had had it and quit. 7th Feb 2013
2nd Spanish noble difficulty (normal). Lost to space race 1999AD in 44h. 25th Feb 2013.
3rd Spanish prince difficulty (+1 above normal). Quit due to striking. 2nd Mar 2013.
4th Spanish prince difficulty. Lost to space race 1966AD in 50h. 11th Mar 2013.
5th Spanish prince difficulty. Won diplomatic victory 2012AD in 58h normalised score 11694. 27th Mar 2013.
Civ4 BTS (with BUG mod) played 2 proper games all the settings as above except the additional setting of world being cylindrical exclusively from 28th Mar to 5th May 2013.
6th Celtic monarch difficulty (+2 difficulty). Lost to cultural victory in 2022AD (445/500 turns) 53h normalised score 4682. 9th Apr 2013.
7th Celtic monarch difficulty. Won conquest victory in 2023AD (466/500 turns) 80h normalised score 19073. 5th May 2013.
This was the first Civ game I have ever played (first game played Feb 2013) but I was googling a new strategy game to play and this one kept coming up. I was initially going to play Civ 5 but after reading quite a few strongly felt posts that Civ 4 was better I decided to give it a go. Well I wasn't dissappointed and have literally put 100s of hours into the game and really enjoyed them.
I think one the things I liked so much about it was how incredibly challanging the AI was. Often I felt I was playing a particularly sneaky human player. I felt I had to pull out all the stops to stand a chance that I suppose meant I had to micromanage but oddly I like that if I there is reason to do it ie I would lose otherwise.
Anway here is a list of my games so you see how many hours I sunk into this and so if you have recently done the same you are not alone!
Civ4 vanilla played 5 proper games all with the same settings except difficulty exclusively from 30th Jan to 27th Mar 2013.
Continents / Climate (Temperate) / Sealevel (Medium) / World Size (standard)/ Game Speed (Normal)
1st Spanish noble difficulty (normal). Looks like I probably realised I had had it and quit. 7th Feb 2013
2nd Spanish noble difficulty (normal). Lost to space race 1999AD in 44h. 25th Feb 2013.
3rd Spanish prince difficulty (+1 above normal). Quit due to striking. 2nd Mar 2013.
4th Spanish prince difficulty. Lost to space race 1966AD in 50h. 11th Mar 2013.
5th Spanish prince difficulty. Won diplomatic victory 2012AD in 58h normalised score 11694. 27th Mar 2013.
Civ4 BTS (with BUG mod) played 2 proper games all the settings as above except the additional setting of world being cylindrical exclusively from 28th Mar to 5th May 2013.
6th Celtic monarch difficulty (+2 difficulty). Lost to cultural victory in 2022AD (445/500 turns) 53h normalised score 4682. 9th Apr 2013.
7th Celtic monarch difficulty. Won conquest victory in 2023AD (466/500 turns) 80h normalised score 19073. 5th May 2013.